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Discovering the Sussex Declaration
  • Date: Thursday, July 06, 2017
  • Time: 4:00 pm
  • Location: William G. McGowan Theater, Washington, DC

Harvard University researchers Danielle Allen and Emily Sneff will discuss the recent identification of a second parchment manuscript of the Declaration of Independence in Chichester, England. The manuscript, dating from the 1780s, is written in the hand of a single clerk.

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